Warsaw: A divided city
Warsaw: A City Divided Wednesday 19 April 2023 at 8 pm, ART Cinema, Cihlářská 19, Brno During World War II, occupied Warsaw was divided by a wall - a Jewish ghetto grew up there, where not only Jews from Warsaw but also from other parts of Poland and Germany were forcibly relocated. Conditions were inhumane, and in 1942 regular deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp began. Some of the ghetto inhabitants decided to make a desperate and heroic gesture - to die in battle. On 19 April 1943, exactly eighty years ago, the uprising broke out. It was brutally suppressed by the German soldiers and the ghetto was razed to the ground. Warsaw was to become a model Nazi city, and German architects were working on plans for a massive rebuilding. Canadian filmmaker and historian with Polish roots, Eric Bednarski, discovered by happy accident a unique documentary - amateur footage from the ghetto, shot by a young Polish man who risked his life in the process. Apart from the Nazi propaganda films, this is the only surviving material depicting the daily life of the ghetto's inhabitants.Bednarski became interested in the wartime fate of Warsaw and decided to map it. In addition to the unique archival footage, his film also features survivors, as well as architects and urban activists. We follow the destruction of the city as well as its post-war reconstruction and the efforts to embody the memory of the vanished Polish-Jewish metropolis in its streets, not only in the form of monuments and museums.Directed by Eric Bednarski, 2019, 71 minutes, Polish with Czech and English subtitles.The discussion after the film will be attended by Martin Reiner from Mehrin - Moravian Jewish Museum and Lucie Zakopalová from the Polish Institute in Prague.The screening is co-organized by Kino Art, the Polish Institute in Prague and Malý Mehrin as part of the Days of Polish Culture in Brno: https://dpk.brno.cz/
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